” There is nothing worse than your product crashing while you’re demoing it in front of hundreds, if not thousands of people,” Caleb Hicks blogs for Zagg. “Unfortunately for Microsoft, it happened yet again. Unfortunately for us, it wasn’t caught on video. However, The Register reports that a new Windows 8 tablet froze during a demo of Windows 8′s new Metro user interface.”

Hicks reports, “The Microsoft exec demonstrating the tablet operating system brushed off the incident saying: ‘This is a work in progress folks, as you can see here. I think this is a good proof point that this is actually real stuff that we’re showing.'”

“I can certainly understand the ‘work in progress’ part,” Hicks writes. “Having a hiccup while demoing unreleased software doesn’t bother me. But I take issue with the second part. What does that even mean? Other stuff that people are demoing isn’t ‘real stuff?’ No. Other people rigorously test their product through all of it’s paces to make sure it’s going to work before demoing it.”

This guy should go into politics. He’s obviously expert at “spin” via the nice-sounding-but-entirely-unrelated-comment method.

(And for those of you who think that I’m bashing one side or the other, I’m a conservative, registered Republican, who was thinking of someone on his own side of the aisle while typing that. But if the shoe fits…)

True and if you remember the DOJ trial where Microsoft tried to show how, in real life, that removing IE would degrade Windows…. except the Prosecutor noticed a glitch in the screen and behind the judges doors Microsoft Executives admitted that the “real” images were faked images done so they could show you what “would” happen,,, if…

They are not anything near the blue screen of death and frozen screens that depict the lousy win doze software. You call a Japanese guy on stage with poor english a blooper? What’s that got to do with the OS? I think the Japanese guy was quite entertaining actually.